posted at 1:21 pm on June 27, 2014 by Noah Rothman

The documentary filmmaker and daughter of the House minority leader, Alexandra Pelosi, is promoting a new and heartbreaking documentary about the crisis at the southern border. Pelosi spent weeks speaking with undocumented migrants who have been led to believe that the United States is not only caring for women and children who cross the border but welcoming them to do so.

“[A]ll the young vulnerable, migrant women who just got to America that I spoke with saw the Border Patrol as the heroes who came to assist them on their journey,” Pelosi recently wrote in an op-ed published on MSNBC.com. “They all said that when they saw Border Patrol, they finally felt safe and happy to have survived their harrowing odyssey to get to the Promised Land.”

Once the border-crossers have been processed by the Department of Homeland Security, they are released – so throughout the day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement delivers them to the Greyhound bus station where they are dropped off and forced to fend for themselves.

Pelosi paints a picture of waves of hopelessly naïve and needy immigrants who are convinced, ignoring all evidence to the contrary, that the United States will not deport them if they simply explain how dire their circumstances are in their home countries.

“Our message absolutely is don’t send your children unaccompanied on trains or through a bunch of smugglers,” the president said. “That is our direct message to families in Central America. Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they’ll get sent back. More importantly, they may not make it.”

But Pelosi noted that the problem America faces on its borders is not one that can be solved by rhetoric. In fact, she said, the issue has been exacerbated by American politicians and the media – including the president.

She added that the press and the political class, by not clearly asserting that bad actors on the other side of the border are funneling migrants into the United States, American institutions are complicit in a humanitarian crisis.

“I worry, in all of this, that we could be facilitating human trafficking,” Pelosi said. She added that cartel members are now recruiting women in order to confuse American officials who provide women and children with special treatment.

Pelosi concluded by claiming that security at the border was a “hoax,” considering that a border fence can be thwarted by tools as simple as ladders and migrants are now welcoming their capture by border police. But the crisis at the Mexican border no longer explicitly a humanitarian one. Disturbing reports indicate that the situation on the border has a military dimension as well.

“Border Patrol agents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border,” a local CBS affiliate reported.

KVOA-TV reports that Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdiction operation when the incident happened early Thursday morning on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation. The Mexican chopper fired at the agents and then flew back into Mexico.

It’s perhaps fitting that, 100 years after the start of World War I, U.S./Mexico relations are at their worst point since the Zimmermann Telegram.

History has demonstrated clearly that borders can be hardened against military threats if the will to do so exists. While it may require some creative thinking, it is within the realm of the imagination that the border can be secured against a busload or two of Honduran women and children as well.

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“Our message absolutely is don’t send your children unaccompanied on trains or through a bunch of smugglers,” the president said.
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Which means the his message is just the opposite, because he is a liar.

higgins1991 on June 27, 2014 at 1:30 PM

LOL, I read that as “don’t send them unaccompanied – you come with them, too!”

Noah doesn’t care what long term hotair commenters think because e’re not “unique” visitors. See his tweet below. His job is troll pro-abortion, pro-amnesty liberal MSNBC viewers and to attempt to bring them here. This Salem strategy is poorly thought out because it’ll alienate the current conservative readership and not many liberals actually watch MSDNC. They get their news from Jon Stewart.

Steve K ‏@stephenkruiser Jun 20

@NoahCRothman I have Twitter for yelling at you.

Noah Rothman ‏@NoahCRothman Jun 20

@stephenkruiser I’m thinking some of the folks in the comments section aren’t as tech savvy as you, though.

Steve K ‏@stephenkruiser Jun 20

@NoahCRothman I almost wrote a post about comment folk yesterday. Realized that may not be financially prudent.

@stephenkruiser I’m thinking some of the folks in the comments section aren’t as tech savvy as you, though.

sauldalinsky on June 27, 2014 at 2:32 PM

ROFLMAO!! These morons are pretty funny. They think that being on Twitter is “tech savvy”. Too funny. They probably would have thought they were computer geniuses in the 1970s if they were typing on IBM Selectrics.

ROFLMAO!! These morons are pretty funny. They think that being on Twitter is “tech savvy”. Too funny. They probably would have thought they were computer geniuses in the 1970s if they were typing on IBM Selectrics.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair on June 27, 2014 at 2:43 PM

Yep, that’s Noah and his buddy Stephen Kruiser of PJTV, the site started by Chuckles Johnson of Little Green Footballs…laughing it up over how stupid their audience is.

I still think the only way all those immigrants got the idea to come was directly from our consulates in those countries passing the word. I mean, Jarrett and obummer directed the ambassadors to coordinate providing them the means to travel through Mexico to get to our border.

Either we have a country, the rule of law, and solvency or we
don’t. Obama and his bots have worked 24/7 to destroy all
three. This invasion could be easily stopped by summarily
returning all adults with their children back to Central America.
Unaccompanied children will stop coming when they see the
adults being immediately deported. Obama engineered this
travesty to force the GOP into accepting amnesty or loudly
opposing children “in crisis” before the election. Obama’s mafia
style should disgust every American. His monarchy must be
stopped now or every peasant on the planet will be crawling
over the border.

ABC host George Stephanopoulos : “You mentioned immigration. There’s a humanitarian crisis on the border. Some of your critics have said you need to speak out more directly to the people of Central America and say, ‘don’t come. If you come, you will be deported’.”

President Barack Obama : “We actually — we’ve done that. The problem is that, under current law, once the kids come across the border, there’s a system in which we’re supposed to process them, take care of them, until we can send them back.”

ABC host George Stephanopoulos : “Is your message ‘don’t come’?”

President Barack Obama : “Oh, our message absolutely is ‘don’t send your children unaccompanied on trains or through a bunch of smugglers.’
That is our direct message to families in Central America. ‘Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they’ll get sent back. More importantly, they may not make it‘.”

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Does anyone here have connections with someone who resides in Central America, and get a confirmation on this?

Obama and his minions a facilitating this so they can declare it a humanitarian crisis because the Republicans won’t allow “immigration reform”.

Vince on June 27, 2014 at 1:48 PM

This is part of the problem. A lesson no doubt taught to him by Frank Davis, his mother and grandparents. If you can’t make the government change, overwhelm it so that it has no choice but to change in a way that is acceptable to the socialist/communist doctrines.

The other part stems from Obama as a narcissists. When narcissists are backed into the corner and cannot escape failure they typically revert to a strategy of revenge. Obama in this case has the power of the president to extract that revenge

This revenge is aimed at the Republicans in congress who oppose him, and the people they represent; the Americans who hold traditional values that are opposed to his socialist values, goals and morals.

This is more than just an immigration issue. It is working for Obama, but it is also effectively an invasion of our country by unarmed invaders with Obama’s help, encouragement and protection. Unarmed assumes that the Mexican army’s firing on our border patrol to prevent them from interfering with the illegals entering our country is not considered. In this light Obama is guilty of high treason.

There is another factor that has not been mentioned that is driving this invasion of children, most of which are old enough to work.

Obama is aware of that not all are actually children and is pressing to allow them to be able to work when they are released. Mexico counts the Money sent home from legal and for a larger part illegal workers in our country as the second or third largest factor of national income. It is a form of redistribution of national wealth that Mexico will continue to encourage. It harms us in that it creates an imbalance in trade dollars which puts us at a disadvantage as more goes out than comes in in trade dollars, since nothing was bought to exchange those dollars.

The central American countries are not going to discourage this new source of much needed national income that we cannot afford to be giving them. Obama never has understood economic issues, according to his briefing staff, but someone that works for him does.

Effectively it is pushing dollars the same as would the carbon credits that they are trying to use to the same purpose.

I have not seen this fact of the illegal immigration and the fact that it is for a large part children mentioned. In the countries these children are coming from, only the wealth children get to go to school or if they are able, they pick one child to send to school so that they can get an education and support the family and elderly parents later. The parents are sending their children knowing if they make it to America and Obama promising that they will be allowed to stay, that they will be sent to school which will benefit the family at home. The children have no future or value where they are coming from so the risks and dangers they may face getting here are worth the chance some may make it. Telling them not to send the child because of dangers has no meaning to them. They already know it is a risk to the child.

If a “child” is under the age of 18 or claims to be under 18, they will be required to go to school. I have had 15 and 16 year old students placed in my classroom that came from Mexico and spoke not a word of English. They just place them by age rather than knowledge and let it be the teacher’s problem to work it out.

This is more than just an immigration issue. It is working for Obama, but it is also effectively an invasion of our country by unarmed invaders with Obama’s help, encouragement and protection. Unarmed assumes that the Mexican army’s firing on our border patrol to prevent them from interfering with the illegals entering our country is not considered. In this light Obama is guilty of high treason.

Franklyn on June 27, 2014 at 3:39 PM

Obama has weakened this nation to a point where the Mexican Government/Military (who knew they even had one) is firing on our border patrol agents who are busy changing diapers.

Impeachment is the ONLY option… There is no possible way we can survive another 2 1/2 years under Homey the Clown Obama, A/K/A Preznit Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

No! You read that wrong. This is a politically motivated puff movie made to garner sympathy for the horde of illegal aliens crossing our border. This is Pelosi’s daughter and apples never fall far from the tree.

Since they got away with Fast and Furious, it was natural to get into trafficking with Fast and Furious II – Occupy The Border. No responsible parent sends their children “unaccompanied” anywhere, as we all know.

This is organized and the Democrat hope is that the media will focus on this while Rome is burning with the other scandals.

Don’t pay any attention to what Pelosi or her daughter does. Don’t pay any attention to what Hillary or her daughter does.

Meanwhile Obama is running against the clock to complete his Close-Gitmo/ Kill Coal/ Open Borders/ Poor-healthcare-for-all legacy.

Obama: “Our message absolutely is don’t send your children unaccompanied on trains or through a bunch of smugglers. That is our direct message to families in Central America. Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they’ll get sent back. More importantly, they may not make it.”

Which means:
1. Send them with their mom and dad, and we’ll let all of you stay in the US.
2. Like everything else he says, his actions are a complete 180 degrees from his words.

“Our message absolutely is don’t send your children unaccompanied on trains or through a bunch of smugglers,” the president said. “That is our direct message to families in Central America. Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they’ll get sent back. More importantly, they may not make it.”

If you’ve ever seen her 2009 “documentary” about the political right and disaffected conservatives, you’ll know what I mean.

Right next to the phrase “drive-by journalist,” you’ll see her picture. She projects herself as an objective observer of the issues, but she is absolutely nothing but that. She has an agenda, and she is no friend of ours. At. All.

And, aside from the fact that Noah could use an editor to catch spelling and grammatical mistakes, he’s as right as rain.

“Border Patrol agents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border,” a local CBS affiliate reported.

It is time for our border patrols to carry a couple of stinger missiles with them to shoot down these Mexican military helicopters making illegal incursions across our border. We shouldn’t have to shoot down more than 3 or 4 for Mexico to stop. And if they don’t like it – F them.